Jackie Speier on Peter King's Muslim radicalization hearings: "Racist"

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/9/11 | Joe Garofoli - Chronicle Political Writer

[SmithL]

Is there such as thing as "must-see" C-SPAN3? If so, set the DVR for 6:30 a.m. West Coast time for Thursday's Homeland Security Committee, where as we told you the other day, GOP Rep. Peter King is planning to look into the radicalization of U.S. Muslims.

San Mateo's own Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier is a member of that committee and told us Wednesday that she is planning to "call out" King Thursday:

"This is one member's bias that he is now putting forth as the policy of this country and there are going to be many of us who will shout out and call him out on abusing his role as chair and abusing the Congress of the United States for whatever his personal bias . . .

[FlingWingFlyer]

Somebody needs to load Speier’s @$$ on an airliner being piloted by two muzzies.

[Walkingfeather]

Anyone look into her campaign donation list?

[NormsRevenge]

wow,, 1 minute 2 seconds..

I hope jackie chokes on her own vitriol and spittle.

[GeronL]

I thought it was the job of the government to protect us from terrorism and the left goes nuts to protect the terrorists

[NoLibZone]

Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier thinks Islam is a race.

[Batman11]

Hey, Jackie how many of your friends were killed in the Towers? STFU!

[Mr. Mojo]

Racist? There are plenty of white Muslims too. ....including the National Communications Director for CAIR (Ibrahim Hooper). Islam is a cult, not a race. But libs play the race card for just about anything they don't like these days.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

you know when old white woman are using the race card...it’s more than worn out

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[fieldmarshaldj]

You’d think this idiot would have a bit of experience with knowing the dangers of radical cults given that she was nearly assassinated by Jim Jones’s people in Guyana back in the ‘70s.

[goat granny]

The left has been yelling racist for so many years about things that have nothing to do with race, it should roll of republicans and conservative backs like water off a duck’s back..

[NormsRevenge]

http://homeland.house.gov/

Hearing on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.”

On Thursday, March 10, 2011, the Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing entitled “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.” The Committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building.

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Witnesses

Panel 1

Hon. John D. Dingell, A Representative in Congress from the 15th District of Michigan

Hon. Keith Ellison, A Representative in Congress from the 5th District of Minnesota

Panel 2

Hon. Frank Wolf, A Representative in Congress from the 10th District of Virginia

Panel 3

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, President and Founder, American Islamic Forum for Democracy

Mr. Abdirizak Bihi, Director, Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center

Mr. Melvin Bledsoe, Private Citizen

Sheriff Leroy Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

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Live Feed Web Cast

http://homeland.edgeboss.net/wmedia-live/homeland/20501/150_homeland-chshearing_070430.asx

[juma]

The Great State of California, the gift that keeps on giving. Nancy Pelosi, Jackie Speier, Moonbeam Brown, Arnold Swarts...and on and on and on ....ha.. ha... ha. ha ..ha. someone please help me, get me out of this state !!!! Why did I ever move here ? Its a dream,, I know it. a very bad dream.

[robowombat]

There is more than the usual mau-mauing using the race card.Many pretty solid types such as Ralph Peters go nuts if there is any imputation that there is a systemic problem with Islam and that it represents at least an adversarial threat of not an existential one. What is it that causes this visceral reaction and produces cries of Nazi and other abuse if this topic comes up? Why are so many fairly center right types so defensive about Islam? Five years ago there was similar reactions on this board anytime the problem with mass illegal immigration was raised. That has pretty much disappeared here but I wonder if the same nerve is being hit about this topic. So many who are center right have absorbed so much cultural Marxism in ways they don’t even begin to know while in schools or government service. Liberal death wish thinking, white guilt ideology, and post modern nihilism disguised as multiculturalism have been indoctrinated to so many through so many fora that they have had a major impact on how even professional soldiers think about potential or actual enemies. The shorthand for this is ‘Political Correctness will kill us , literally not figuratively.

[patriot preacher]

King is (predictably) making the WRONG move by backing off and softening on his hearing — he is NOT inviting people who whould know the truth about extreme Islam, like Walid Shoebat... By excluding he and others who have SEEN and KNOW the truth, King is playing right into the hands of the LEFT...

[AuH2ORepublican]

Speier’s mother is (or was) Armenian, a Christian people who were subjected to a genocide by Muslim Turks early in the 20th Century and who to this day have to deal with Muslim violence; one would think that Speier wouldn’t be so naive about Islamist groups.